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I went down to Ohio on Saturday to do a little deer hunting. Of course I brought my Etrac thinking that during the middle of the day I would hit an old honey hole. With the temps in the upper 40's it was very comfortable for early January. I decided to dig any deep repeatable signal. I found...

I decided to hit my nearby park during lunch today hoping I could find an area where the ground was not too frozen. Spent about 30 minutes swinging in a grassy area and went over an old plug of mine and got a decent high tone. But I would only get it one way. I decided to dig it up anyway and...

2015 was simply an amazing detecting year for me! I am very thankful for all of the treasures that I dug up. I had my best year in every category that I keep record of with the exception of Indians and clad. What I find amazing also is that 85 to 90% of my finds were from public areas. In...

Here are my best 2 finds from 2015. Pretty easy choice for me. I found these back in April while on a detecting vacation with a buddy of mine. The 1812 Half was found at a field site and the 1830 5 cent was found in a small park in an old town the very next day.

I was not expecting to go back out but work was slow and even though the temps were in the low 30's there was little wind so I decided to go back to the old park I found the 2 trifectas at a few days ago. I spent about 2 hours there swinging and came away with 4 Wheaties, a smooth Buff, and 2...

This weekend I decided to go to a park that is in an old town and dates back at least to the 1870's. I have hunted this park a couple times in the past but never found anything until last year when I found a couple wheat pennies. I thought I would put on the Ultimate Coil and go slow and dig...

I have been taking advantage of the warmer than normal temps here in SE Michigan the last couple of weeks and been focusing on a honey hole of sorts where the city was kind enough and mowed all of the brush for me. Yesterday during lunch I found the 1929 Buff and 3 mercs!...a rare multi...

I can't hunt quite as much as I would like with the colder weather among other things going on but I had a great surprise when I visited my favorite park near my work the other day during lunch. There is a section of it that it completely overgrown with bushes and small trees and other crap...

Well it has been a rough stretch for me the last month or so. I have done some detecting but the weather has made it difficult at times and also life in general has throw a monkey wrench at me...nothing that other people have not gone through but sometimes things happen and you just want to...

Yesterday morning before I went to work I saw that I still had a stack of wheats on my dresser from a hunt I did a couple nights ago. They were still dirty and needed a quick cleaning...I always check to see if I have any early or rare dates hoping to find a good one. I checked them out and...

I have not been able to detect as much the past few weeks but here are my finds. I managed a little bit of everything...a few mercs, a couple old nickels and a nice indian from 1894. The relics I got last night. A brass buckle, a WW1 general service button (I think any ways) and a heel plate...

Here are the last couple hunts worth of goodies. I found the Red Goose token, the War Nik and 1926 D merc at a local park during my lunch breaks. Last evening I did a bit of doorknocking in an old town and also hit up a public spot and got the 1907 Canadian LC, both 1902 Indians, the 1964...

Here are the last couple weeks worth of finds for me. The Canadian LC is the 8th of the year...I had never found one before this year and now I have 8 of them. Kinda weird how things come in bunches. Last weekend I went down to my family's farm in Ohio. I went to set up my tree stands for...

Yesterday started out great! I went to local park during my lunch break and found a 1920 merc. Its always a satisfying feeling to find a silver during my lunch. Then last night I went to an old park in an old town. I thought I would use my 5 inch coil in the trashy area and see if I could...

It has been a crazy good year for me! I do not set goals necessarily at the beginning of the season but I was hoping that I would make some great finds and/or break the 100 silver mark. And now I have done both this year. I went out detecting over the holiday weekend and worked a spot I have...

Yesterday evening I had planned to go detecting in an old town that has been good to me the last month or so but looking at the radar storms were brewing over and around it so I decided to stick close to my work hoping to get a couple hours of detecting in before I got rained out. I saw a guy...

I had a GREAT week last week! I found a silver Rosie and War Nik during my lunch break at a local park. I did an evening hunt last Wednesday and struggled for most of the time until I got to a city owned curb strip that gave up 3 quick mercs...that was fun! Then on Saturday I went to an...

Last week my family and I went to our cottage in northern Michigan for our summer vacation. I have found many great items in the past but this year was a bit sparse but we still had a lot of fun. I managed one lone silver Rosie which was found in a gravel parking lot. Also got a very nice...

These are from the last week or so of hunts. A few of the silvers came from my hunts I did on my lunch break at a nearby park. The rest came from city owned parcels or curb strips in an old town near where I live. Last night I found the Chinese Ten Cash coin...I think it is from 1904 from...

Here is a pic of the "Fifty" in Fifty Cents and a pic of the "Dollar" in Half Dollar that are printed on the edge of my coin.